Eleven John Cleveland College students became reporters for the day as part of a national BBC schools initiative.

The Year 11 students from the Butt Lane campus were among 30,000 young people nationwide to take part in BBC School Report News Day.

They were freed from their regular timetable and assigned a “newsroom” on campus to hold briefings and meetings as they prepared copy on topics of teenage interest.

All were tasked with completing a written, audio or video report on their chosen subject by the end of the afternoon.

Some conducted surveys within school, others contacted exterior sources, including a phone call to the mayor of Hinckley and Bosworth, and two students went to interview Bosworth MP, Conservative backbencher David Tredinnick.